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BOSTON OMNI PARKER HOUSE HOTEL
60 School St.
BOSTON, MA 02108
Contact Info:
Reservations
800-THE-OMNI
www.omniparkerhouse.com
Region: Boston/Cambridge
Price Range: $$$ ($201-$300)
Amenities: Bar, Cable TV, Children’s Activities, Children Welcome, Fine Dining, Fitness Center, In Room Movies, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Non-smoking rooms, Pets Allowed, Restaurant/Cafe, Wedding Facilities
We are proud to celebrate over 150 years of hospitality excellence as America's longest-continuously operating hotel. Today, the Omni Parker House is the perfect blend of historic charm and modern amenities due to our extensive $30 million restoration and renovation completed in 2008 along with our proactive "Green" initiatives. Including a state-of-the-art complimentary health club, Get Fit guestroom option, 24 hour room service, complimentary wireless internet access in all common areas, high-speed internet in all guestrooms, 32" LCD Flatscreen TV's, laptop size safes, MP3 alarm clocks, and a professional concierge staff that will direct you to all the surrounding cultural attractions. Join our Select Guest program at no charge to receive extra benefits at every Omni hotel across the country.
The Omni Parker House enjoys having one of the best locations in the city of Boston, conveniently situated at the foot of Beacon Hill and the Boston Common. We are minutes away from Downtown Crossing, the Financial District, the Theater District, and only one block away from all four major subway lines.
We are proud to offer special packages throughout the year that may include trips to Macy's, the MFA, the ICA, the New England Aquarium, Sporting Events, Duck Tours, and the Freedom Trail.
The Omni Parker House is the perfect destination for all leisure guests, as well as the business traveler. It is the perfect setting to host your next social event with 18 function rooms, and over 23,000 square feet of versatile function space.
Consider the Rooftop Ballroom, the only one in the city, for your next meeting or a grand, beautiful wedding. The ballroom features a gracefully arched ceiling, crystal chandeliers, and spectacular panoramic views of Boston, and accommodates up to 400 people. Our newest addition, the modern Alcott Ballroom is gloriously finished with gleaming crystal chandeliers, and regal floor length draperies. The celebrated Historic Press Room is stately yet warm, featuring mahogany paneled walls, a marble fireplace, and hand carved chandeliers. Our historic Dickens Room, named after the famed author Charles Dickens, is a period detailed room with a fireplace portrayed during his visit to the Parker House from 1867 to 1868. Perfect for a boardroom meeting or an intimate dinner.
The Omni Parker House is also your destination for fine dining in Boston. Our executive chef is a master at creating a feast for your senses, offering special packages and holiday dinner menus throughout the year.
The Boston Cream Pie was created in the ovens of Parker's Restaurant, now the official state dessert. It was signed into law in the Press Room and was chosen over Toll House Cookies and the Fig Newton. What made the dessert so special was its chocolate icing. When the Parker House opened, chocolate was mainly consumed at home as a beverage or in puddings. Parker's Restaurant is also the birthplace of Parker House Rolls, whose recipe was kept a secret until 1933 when President Franklin Roosevelt requested it. The term "Scrod" meaning the "catch of the day" was also coined at Parker's Restaurant.
Malcolm Little, later known as Malcolm X, was a bus boy in Parker's Restaurant in the early 1940's. Ho Chi Minh was a pastry chef in Parker's kitchen from 1911-1913. The table that he worked on is still in the bakeshop.
If you'd like to unwind with a drink, relax in Parker's Bar or The Last Hurrah, which has been the gathering place for Boston's colorful political pantheon for close to 150 years. The bar takes its name from Edwin O'Connor's 1956 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel "The Last Hurrah", based on the frequent patron, James Michael Curley's picturesque career as a mayor of Boston, governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Congressman, and inmate at a federal penitentiary.
Throughout the years, the Omni Parker House has been home, getaway and gathering place for political leaders and literary icons. We have even employed future civil activists and world-renowned chefs.
John F. Kennedy and his family have a remarkable history with the Parker House. JFK made his first public speech at the age of seven in the Press Room while attending his grandfather Honey Fitzgerald's birthday party. The Press Room later became the place where he announced his candidacy for U.S. Congress and where he had his bachelor party. John F. Kennedy proposed to Jacqueline Bouvier in our Parker's Restaurant at Table 40.
The Saturday Club, a group of the brightest luminaries in America's Golden Age of Literature, made the Parker House its home. Here Longfellow drafted "Paul Revere's Ride", the idea for the Atlantic Monthly was born, and Dickens gave his first American reading of "A Christmas Carol". Other members of the Saturday Club included poets Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Greenleaf Whittier, novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Come stay with us and become a part of our legend!
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